Occupation: Author Birth: April 3, 1894 Death: May 31, 1986
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy t….
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags withou….
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence..
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens..
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritaria….
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects..
Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature..
What does one do about the dead? They live forever..
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one..
Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about ….
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying..
The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion….
What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There i….
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them..
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker..
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance..
Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separ….
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradua….
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more tele….
Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To ….
anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement fro….